Australia: Audit

The approach to combustible cladding on existing buildings in Australia is not uniform with each state providing a different response to the risk posed by combustible cladding on public and private

In a shareholder class action, the plaintiff sought discovery of documents from the defendant partnership in relation to alleged statutory contraventions associated with its role as auditor of a company that had gone into liquidation.

Amendments to the Corporations Act will extend the availability of crowd-sourced funding (CSF) to proprietary companies.